Gary Lineker lauds huge Liverpool ‘decision’ v Newcastle which left Alan Shearer disappointed

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Alan Shearer admitted that he’d privately been daring Alexander Isak to take Liverpool’s stoppage-time penalty against Newcastle on Sunday.The Swedish striker was unsurprisingly subjected to a torrent of vitrol from the Tyneside natives as he returned to St James’ Park for the first time since his protracted £125m transfer to the Reds a year ago.He was unable to make a telling impact against his former club, with his performance questioned by Michael Owen, and he wasn’t tasked with taking the spot kick that the visitors were awarded in added time.Dominik Szoboszlai instead stepped up to score the equaliser and ensure that the points would be divided evenly between the teams.(Photo by George Wood/Getty Images)Shearer was hoping Isak would take the penaltyAlong with Gary Lineker and Micah Richards, Shearer was looking back at the penalty incident on the new episode of The Rest Is Football, and he’d wanted Isak to show the requisite character to assume responsibility for the spot kick.The Geordie said: “I was thinking, ‘Go on, come and take the penalty! Go and grab the ball and take the penalty, Isak.'”Lineker argued that it was sensible from Liverpool to let Szoboszlai take it, saying: “I think that was the right decision from Liverpool not to give it to [Isak] because that pressure would have been enormous.

Surely he’s not going to take this?'”Shearer replied: “I wanted him to go and take it. I was thinking, ‘Come on, you’ve been absolutely battered.

Let’s see what you’ve got. Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list for news you can trustSzoboszlai was the safer bet for pressure penaltyObviously it’s easy to say in hindsight that it was the right call for Szoboszlai to take the penalty because he scored it, but even in the moment it felt as though Isak shouldn’t be tasked with that responsibility.It may have been the perfect opportunity for him to silence the Newcastle fans who’d been goading him all day, but just think of what would’ve happened had he taken it and missed.